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It has been most of the summer without a post. I have been developing my own theme for the blog. It has taken longer than expected. I am putting the finishing touches on it. Wordpress has also gone up to 2.6.1 and small bugs prevented the theme from working flawlessly. Very soon it will all [...]

Pete Foley is a blogger from Philadelphia, PA USA. He and his partner bought our former store Jean-Jacques Gallery. He maintains a blog dedicated to 99.9% organic gardening in Mt Airy. Mt Airy is a neighborhood in Philadelphia in the Northwest quadrant of the city, where the store is located and where we also lived. [...]

As many of you know I teach English at an Engineering Graduate School in France called the ENAC, École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile. It is a Grande École which means it is very competitive to get into and the students are very motivated and work hard. I taught a General English class that was an [...]

I know there is this idea that people who spend too much time online socializing are losing the ability to socialize in real life and that we, oops, are missing out on real friendships. Well I have news for you, it’s not true. Through this blog I have had the opportunity to meet in person [...]

You have to love a site that hosts a variety of blogs with the tagline, These Blogs Are Not Real. Newsgroper takes big current political and social leaders in the world and has people write fake personal blogs as if they were that person. The result is hilarious, sometimes scary, sometimes offensive, but always funny. [...]

This is a Livejournal blog by an old friend Michelle Gonzalez. We knew each other when we were playing music in the Bay Area and after both of us stopped, our paths crossed again when we bought houses in the same East Oakland neighborhood. The 4 of us had wonderful times before we moved to [...]